It’s a big game, a long game, and a game that brings many aspects of medieval Frisia to life. It’s a worker placement game that is unusual in not allowing more than two players, but is equally unusual in the number of options you have and factors to consider. Instead, it’s a set collecting game shooting for poker hands, where playing a hand lets you improve one attribute of your game play.įields of Arle is Uwe Rosenberg’s love letter to the home of his ancestors, East Frisia and especially the village of Arle. Perpetual-Motion Machine, the new game by Ted Alspach, has nothing to do with physics, despite the title. And so it is, a long time later, a small group of modern-day adventurers that set out to retrieve the legendary treasures from the Forbidden Island. But power, as everyone learns sooner or later, is no guarantee for survival. They created four artefacts that could control the very elements. Thousands of years ago, the Archaean empire was at the height of its power. “It’s a Patience game, only you can play it with friends and it’s about rescuing people from the Titanic.” It probably wasn’t an easy sale, but here it is: SOS Titanic, the multiplayer solitaire game with superpowers. I imagine that sometimes the pitch for a new board game must sound a lot like the pitch for the weird blockbuster movie of a year.
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